Anti-Marxist exclusion operated informally through refused funding rather than open rulings
Evidence
It was hardly ever possible to nail down suspicions of Marxism as a reason for difficulties that were being made for the Institute. … At the beginning of the 1940s, when the Institute was looking for research funds to support two projects, Neumann had a talk with Carl Joachim Friedrich, a well-known, extremely busy professor of politics, who had moved to the USA as early as 1921 and was teaching at Harvard University. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 277
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: how ideological exclusion in American academia worked through grant refusals and plausible deniability rather than explicit blacklists — the Institute as a case study.
- XREF: connects to: American funders withheld support from institutions they judged dogmatically Marxist — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 277; Antiracist movements admitted the excluded without ceding defining power over criteria — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 114; Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243 (+7 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: American funders withheld support from institutions they judged dogmatically Marxist — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 277; Antiracist movements admitted the excluded without ceding defining power over criteria — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 114; Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Legal protection historically enabled workers to afford collective refusal
#complicates(0.74) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 305 - Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted
#complicates(0.73) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468